Comments on: Long-running operation in a wizard page

By: Seb

Seb — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:08:18 +0000

It seems that to display the wizard progress monitor control you also have to call :

((Wizard) getWizard()).setNeedsProgressMonitor(true);

By: Velvet Wine Bags

Velvet Wine Bags — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:19:48 +0000

Ever woundered how microsoft create the nice longrunning process windows works in SharePoint 2007?

SPLongOperation is the class to use. It has 2 important methods

Begin and End;

All your code that runs for a long time is placed between begin and end.

Below is a sample class.

It is almost to simple and just works

using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
namespace CreateLongOperation
{
public class LongRun : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected Button buttonOk;

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
buttonOk.Click += new EventHandler(buttonOk_Click);
}

void buttonOk_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
SPLongOperation operation = new SPLongOperation(this.Page);

operation.Begin();

// do long operation code here…
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(6000);

operation.End(“http://sps/_layouts/Mynewpage.aspx”);
}
}
}

By: SeB

SeB — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:07:47 +0000

Do you think it would be easilly possible while the long job is running to add a button or change the grayed “finish” button by a “Run in background” button dyanmically. If this button where clicked then the wizard dialog box would be reduced in the job bar like a Job and bring the wizard back again to show next page for instance when the long task is over ?
SeB.